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The Floatplane Notebooks

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Author : Clyde Edgerton
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202149
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notebooks written by Clyde Edgerton and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel set in North Carolina is “warmly humorous, gossipy, and rich―a book with the soul of a family reunion” (The New York Times Book Review). The Copeland family goes back a long way in North Carolina. Albert Copeland keeps a written record, of sorts, in some notebooks he bought back in 1956 to log the flights of his home-built floatplane. He embarked on that project when the kids were still little, but now they’re all grown: Thatcher has a son of his own; Meredith and Mark are back from Vietnam; and Noralee is off dating hippies. The notebooks are thick with the floatplane’s failures to lift off, and bulging with color Polaroids of the wisteria blossoms near the family plot, favorite family dogs, and Thatcher and Bliss’s wedding; records of Noralee’s height and weight; a diagram of the graveyard; a newspaper story about wild-child Meredith’s many backfired schemes. This novel travels back in time more than one hundred years, to the Copeland bride who first planted the wisteria by the back porch that would take over the surrounding woods, and then back to the present again to show how even though times change, people are pretty much the same. “Among the wisest, most heartfelt writing to emerge from the South in our generation . . . Meredith Copeland’s first-person account of his Vietnam experience, homecoming, and physical paralysis in North Carolina is breathtakingly stark, full, and real.” ―Los Angeles Times “The Floatplane Notebooks has all the marks of a master storyteller going straight for the mystery itself. All the marks, that is, of a new American classic.” ―The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A wonderful celebration of family and tradition, with warts, humor, tragedy, and triumph . . . An exceedingly rich book, a celebration of the human spirit that is brilliantly conceived, structured, and executed.” ―The Cincinnati Post

The Floatplane Notebooks

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Author : Clyde Edgerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140119862
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notebooks written by Clyde Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Floatplane Notebooks

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Author : Clyde Edgerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780685295717
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notebooks written by Clyde Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Floatplane Notebooks

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Author : Outlet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517086377
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notebooks written by Outlet and published by . This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raney

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Author : Clyde Edgerton
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202130
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Raney written by Clyde Edgerton and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is too good to keep to yourself. Read it aloud with someone you love, then send it to a friend. But be sure to keep a copy for yourself, because you'll want to read it again and again."-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Raney is a small-town Baptist. Charles is a liberal from Atlanta. And Raney is the story of their marriage. Charming, wise, funny, and truthful, it is a novel for everyone to love. "A real jewel."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

Redeye

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Author : Clyde Edgerton
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565120604
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Redeye written by Clyde Edgerton and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peopled with the odd characters, Indians, Quakers, and Mormons of turn-of-the-century Colorado, this story features an enterprising frontiersman who plans to turn Native American cliff dwellings into America's first roadside attraction

Of Fiction and Faith

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Author : W. Dale Brown
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802843131
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Of Fiction and Faith written by W. Dale Brown and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Fiction and Faith features personal interviews with twelve of America's most significant writers, interviews which provide a window into the personal and literary lives of writers with special focus on their attitudes towards issues of faith.

The Floatplane Notesbooks

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Author : Clyde Edgerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785552466122
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notesbooks written by Clyde Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 1988-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgerton's first novel, Raney, went into six printings before becoming a smash paperback hit. His second, Walking Across Egypt, doubled the first's hardcover sales, set off a scramble for paperback rights, and launched the Book-of-the-Month Club's "Discovery" series. Now, there is The Floatplane Notebooks--a breakthrough novel that combines Edgerton's comic gift with his piercing insights into family ties.

A Web of Words

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Author : Richard J. Gray
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820330051
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A Web of Words written by Richard J. Gray and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps readers understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts - a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational. This book charts 3 different intertextual practices involving writings both within and outside the South.

Reading, Learning, Teaching Clyde Edgerton

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Author : Yvonne Mason
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820481432
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Reading, Learning, Teaching Clyde Edgerton written by Yvonne Mason and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the literature of contemporary American writer Clyde Edgerton. A North Carolina native, Edgerton has been compared to Mark Twain for his easy, humorous style, which is based in oral tradition. Like Twain and other humorous writers, Edgerton's work often contains both biting satire and exploration of very large questions about the human condition. The book contains an overview of each of his novels and his memoir in addition to offering critical commentary on theme, craft, and structure. Pedagogical support is offered with specific strategies that will encourage authentic engagement and learning. Teachers will find specific companion pieces of literature for introducing Edgerton's vivid and challenging work. This book presents the case for including more of Clyde Edgerton's work in our secondary and college English language arts classrooms as a means of revitalizing curricula and challenging the ways we traditionally think about teaching.

Southern Writers Bear Witness

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Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178770
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Southern Writers Bear Witness written by Jan Nordby Gretlund and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen Southern storytellers reveal their influences, methods and daily routines, and struggles with the writing process Jan Nordby Gretlund has been studying the literature of the American South for some fifty years, and his outsider's perspective as a European scholar has made him an intellectually acute witness of both the literature and its creators. Whether it is their language and reflexive storytelling or the craft and techniques by which writers transform life and experience into art that fascinates Gretlund, elements of their fiction led to his interviews with the fourteen storytellers featured in Southern Writers Bear Witness. Gretlund believes a good interview will always reveal something about a writer's life and character, details that can inform a reading of that writer's fiction. The interviewer's task, according to Gretlund, is to supply the reader with some of the sources and experiences that inspired and shaped the fiction. Through his conversations Gretlund also occasionally elicits the subjects' reflections on other writers and their work to discover affiliations, lines of influence, and divergences, and he also emphasizes the enduring power of their work. His interviews with Eudora Welty and Pam Durban uncover strong family and community experiences found at the core of their fiction. Gretlund also turns conversations to the craft of writing, writers' daily routines, and specific problems encountered in their work, such as Clyde Edgerton's struggle with point of view. In other exchanges he investigates distinctive elements of a writer's work, such as violence in Barry Hannah's fiction and religious faith in Walker Percy's. Still other conversations, such as his with Josephine Humphreys, touch on the pressures and opportunities of publishing and its influence on the writer's work. Taken together, these authors' insights on life in the South provide a fascinating window into the creative process of storytelling as well as the human experiences that fuel it. A foreword by Daniel Cross Turner, author of Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South and co-editor of Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry, is also included. Featured Authors: Pat Conroy Pam Durban Clyde Edgerton Percival Everett Kaye Gibbons Barry Hannah Mary Hood Josephine Humphreys Madison Jones Martin Luther King Sr. Walker Percy Ron Rash Dori Sanders Eudora Welty

Southern Writers at Century's End

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Author : Jeffrey J. Folks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189519
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Southern Writers at Century's End written by Jeffrey J. Folks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States. The rapid change that climaxed with the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights demonstrations, and Watergate has forced the traditional South to come to terms with social upheaval. As the essays collected in Southern Writers at Century's End point out, southern writing: since 1975 reflects the confusion and violence that have characterized late-twentieth-century public culture. These essays consider the work of twenty-one of the foremost southern writers whose most important fiction has appeared in the last quarter of this century. As the region's contemporary writers have begun to gain a wide audience, critics have begun to distinguish what Hugh Holman has called "the fresh, the vital, and the new" in southern literary culture. Southern Writers at Century's End is the first volume to take an extensive look at the current generation of southern writers. Authors considered include: James Lee Burke, Fred Chappell, Robert Drake, Andre Dubus, Clyde Edgerton, Richard Ford, Kaye Gibbons, John Grisham, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Richard Marius, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Tim McLaurin, T.R. Pearson, Lee Smith, Anne Tyle,r Alice Walker, and James Wilcox.

Saint Croix Notes

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Author : Noah Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816638147
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Saint Croix Notes written by Noah Adams and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saint Croix River Valley is a remarkable part of Minnesota and Wisconsin that combines stunning natural beauty with small-town life. Here, Noah Adams reflects with humor and pathos on the small things that add up to the good life -- watching a Christmas pageant, spotting eagles, listening to ghost stories, and paddling down the Saint Croix River. This collection, originally written for broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio's Good Evening, is one to cherish and reread.

Possessing the Past

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Author : Lisa Hinrichsen
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807160075
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Possessing the Past written by Lisa Hinrichsen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality. Focusing on the roles that narrative and fantasy play in creating a sense of regional distinctiveness, Lisa Hinrichsen brings a wealth of critical scholarship to her consideration of memory and southern literature. Hinrichsen's nuanced readings of a diverse group of southern authors, including William Faulkner, Roberto Fernández, Erna Brodber, Monique Truong, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, offer new ways of conceptualizing memory, place, and history. She unravels southern literature's critical confrontation with the region's history through complex systems of remembrance and erasure, and she traces how fantasy mediates trauma and adjudicates identity. Expansive in its psychoanalytical approach, her work explores issues of law, testimony, and social justice; the role of nostalgic fantasies of gentility at midcentury; the relationship between white empathy and social fantasy; the resemblance of regional patterns of disavowal to national ideologies of forgetting in Vietnam-era fiction; and the impact of contemporary multicultural literature on memory and community. Possessing the Past broadens the theoretical framework used to conceptualize memory and trauma, while grounding traumatic testimony in the specifics of time and place amply offered by southern literature. It provides new readings of an array of southern writers and deepens our understanding of the continuing importance of history, memory, and fantasy in the literature of the U.S. South.

Vietnam and the Southern Imagination

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Author : Owen W. Gilman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035340
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam and the Southern Imagination written by Owen W. Gilman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers

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Author : Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810831957
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers written by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully annotated bibliography lists sources of criticism for thirty-nine Southern male authors, each of whom has published at least one significant book of fiction between 1970 and 1994.

Learning to Fly

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Author : P. H. Liotta
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780449219188
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Fly written by P. H. Liotta and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: